date=Friday, March 1, and Saturday, March 2, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=When the ashes of a legendary social activist and feisty grandmother demand to be laid to rest, the trio of an American woman and two Scotsmen heads off on a transformative journey between the past and present,Scottish Highlands and Appalachian Mountains, in search of a fitting ending.`tickets=https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/the-team.html

date=Saturday, March 16, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=Celebrate St Patrick’s weekend with one of the world’s current leading traditional Irish ensembles.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/mapSelect.asp?doWork::WSmap::loadMap=Load&createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadMap::performance_ids=3EEDABE5-E41D-4F14-BA1F-C51835BCF29D

date=Tuesday, March 19, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=”New York Times” bestselling novelist Zadie Smith was born in North London in 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother and graduated from Cambridge in 1997.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/seatSelect.asp?doWork::WSmap::loadMap=Load&createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadMap::performance_ids=D3263EEA-C28C-41D9-AF91-21A43BB5B4FD

featuring=Kevin Deas, bass-baritone`date=Saturday, March 23, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=PostClassical Ensemble lifts up works deserving greater advocacy, believing that music of consequence should be contextualized in new spaces for audiences, old and new, in search of deeper paths of engagement both intellectual and spiritual.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/mapSelect.asp?doWork::WSmap::loadMap=Load&createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadMap::performance_ids=40E3D8D7-AA4F-448A-A7F6-E28B26B2AB5E

date=Saturday, March 30, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=David Roussève’s latest work is a blend of dance, music, video, text, theatre, and visual design that seeks to redefine biography and find the truth of the life of composer Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington’s main arranger and writing collaborator.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/mapSelect.asp?doWork::WSmap::loadMap=Load&createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadMap::performance_ids=FB220A28-606B-4F6A-8E7C-388EEB9EC191

date=Monday, April 1, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=Terry Tempest Williams has been called “a citizen writer,” a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/seatSelect.asp?doWork::WSmap::loadMap=Load&createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadMap::performance_ids=C2DD5A25-39AB-4AA8-8350-C23E4B868BAD

date=Friday, April 5, and Saturday, April 6, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=Amy X Neuburg has been developing her unique brand of irreverently genre-crossing works for voice, live electronics, and small and large ensembles for over 30 years.`tickets=https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/amy-x-neuburg.html

featuring=Richard Tognetti, artistic director, and Inon Barnatan, piano`date=Sunday, April 7, 2019, 4 PM`desc=Internationally renowned for inspired programming and the rapturous response of audiences and critics, the orchestra returns to the Moss Arts Center for their second visit.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/mapSelect.asp?doWork::WSmap::loadMap=Load&createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadMap::performance_ids=9E253CAD-A549-447E-BB64-DAE75FA55A59

featuring=Music by Fred Hersch and words by Walt Whitman`date=Friday, April 26, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=Jazz composer and pianist Fred Hersch’s “Leaves of Grass” celebrates the life and poetry of the American bard Walt Whitman, whose work redefined American poetry and had a significant, life-affirming impact on Hersch.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/mapSelect.asp?doWork::WSmap::loadMap=Load&createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadMap::performance_ids=2C941BB5-2A7C-4087-99C1-DCBBBA2218BF

date=Saturday, May 11, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=Developed in collaboration with “SpongeBob SquarePants” lead writer Steven Banks, the performance tells a love story about two people and their quixotic quest to save an imaginary bird.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/mapSelect.asp?doWork::WSmap::loadMap=Load&createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadMap::performance_ids=B1B84E31-3E7A-4D50-9273-5F0556376FED

date=Friday, June 7, 2019, 8:30 PM`desc=Our second annual reunion weekend concert features Robert Randolph and the Family Band as we welcome our friends, neighbors, and VT alumni who are home for the weekend.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/seatSelect.asp?doWork::WSmap::loadMap=Load&createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadMap::performance_ids=EEB31C8D-87C2-4B53-BA81-4A5D2253E761

date=Sunday, June 9, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=Doc Watson is an iconic figure in American music, and this concert by those who performed with Doc and counted him a close friend will be a chance for everyone who loved Doc to share in a celebration of his life and music.

date=Monday, April 8, 2019, 8 PM`desc=Originally from Long Island, trombonist William Lang, an active performer, improviser, and teacher based in New York City, performs in this School of Performing Arts concert.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/seatSelect.asp?doWork::WSmap::loadMap=Load&createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadMap::performance_ids=07FF5072-9EDB-43F8-84AD-2D602B10F41E

date=Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=The New River Valley Symphony Orchestra presents its spring concert in this School of Performing Arts performance.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/seatSelect.asp?doWork::WSmap::loadMap=Load&createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadMap::performance_ids=2D6842C5-D5BA-49AD-B170-698F33DF5133

date=Thursday, April 25-Saturday, April 27, 2019, 7 PM, and Saturday, April 27, 2019, 4 PM`desc=A School of Performing Arts performance, “Body, Full of Time” is a solo choreographic work performed and created by movement and media artist Scotty Hardwig in collaboration with visual artist Zach Duer.`tickets=https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/sopa-body-full-of-time.html

date=Saturday, April 27, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=The Virginia Tech Chamber Singers, Women's Chorus, and Tech Men present their spring concert in preparation for their tour to Spain in this School of Performing Arts performance.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/seatSelect.asp?doWork::WSmap::loadMap=Load&createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadMap::performance_ids=8D5F8F69-824F-4862-BAB6-5CA9EB6A9FBF

date=Sunday, May 5, 2019, 1 PM`desc=Enjoy a full day of Virginia Tech band music with the Campus Band, Symphony Band, Wind Ensemble, Highty-Tighties, and the Blacksburg Community Band in this School of Performing Arts performance.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/seatSelect.asp?doWork::WSmap::loadMap=Load&createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadMap::performance_ids=F829E0C0-9F89-41F8-93A6-7A06FE24DDDD

featuring=special guests Darragh Morgan and Margaret Schedel`date=Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 7 PM`desc=The School of Performing Arts' Creative Technologies in Music and DISIS, in collaboration with ICAT, present a concert of experimental computer music.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/seatSelect.asp?doWork::WSmap::loadMap=Load&createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadMap::performance_ids=4CE5C33C-B5D9-4296-83B8-4A869561611C

date=Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 8:30 PM`desc=This School of Performing Arts performance features the New Music Ensemble, which focuses on the discussion, performance, and artistry of experimental music since 1970.`tickets=https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/seatSelect.asp?doWork::WSmap::loadMap=Load&createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadMap::performance_ids=E33B9F00-D782-449A-9CD6-4CA49BFF3534

date=Thursday, January 24-Saturday, March 23, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=A stunning selection of works by emerging, national, and internationally acclaimed artists explores the imagery of trees as a potent signifier.

date=Thursday, April 4-Saturday, June 1, 2019`desc=ICAT: Open (at the) Source enables visitors to explore and experience the research and innovation that’s happening within the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT).

date=Thursday, May 9-Saturday, May 18, 2019`desc=This refreshing annual exhibition features original and innovative works by graduating seniors in Virginia Tech’s School of Visual Arts and demonstrates their abilities in the areas of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and ceramics, as well as visual communication design, installation, and new media.

date=Thursday, May 9-Saturday, June 1, 2019`desc=This exhibition presents a range of the artist’s work but focuses on this new body of work, in which the artist, in addition to introducing color, introduces birds, plants, and other small creatures in vivid, meticulously rendered tableaux of forest and riverbank scenes.

featuring=Richard Masters, assistant professor of piano, School of Performing Arts at Virginia Tech`date=Friday, February 22, 2019, 6 PM`desc=Learn more about Bernstein and his legacy at this talk directly before the performance.

date=Friday, March 1, 2019, following the performance`desc=After “Anything That Gives Off Light,” engage with members of The TEAM and learn about the development of this new work during artist residencies in Southwest Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky.

date=Saturday, March 2, 2019, following the performance`desc=Following the performance of “Anything That Gives Off Light,” engage in a public conversation via ThoughtSwap, a new web application for anonymizing and distributing thoughts.

date=Tuesday, March 19, 2019, 6:30 PM`desc=Micro to Macro—All about Trees features Jacob Barney, associate professor in the Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science at Virginia Tech.

date=Thursday, March 28, 2019, 7:30 PM`desc=Inspired by Billy Strayhorn’s dedication to direct activism in the civil rights movement, Roussève tracks the political themes within his own work and the evolution of his own choreographic focus on “the artist as activist.”

date=Monday, April 1, 2019, following the performance`desc=After hearing her talk, engage with author Terry Tempest Williams at this informal book-signing. Williams’ books will be available for purchase.

date=Thursday, April 4, 2019, 5-7 PM`desc=Join us for the opening reception of this inaugural faculty triennial exhibition, which highlights new work by current faculty in Virginia Tech’s School of Visual Arts (SOVA).